Our façade is sketchy when we’re apart

Glass collapsing beneath our feat

I fall gracefully through the shards

Bleeding for you

Falling for you . . .

I see you in the alleyways of your haunted soul

Candles lighting the path on which your love fades

The spark, our spark burning low

From flames to an amber

Rapidly the ashes gather around us

Can you stop us from burning out?

How do we keep our love aflame with the storm hovering over us?

I watch you slowly regress to a stranger I once knew

A stranger with all my depth

How do we savour what remains when it all goes down?

My veneer isn’t waterproof

Rivers flow from my face

Drowning the flesh you once held as yours

Your prints are forever imprinted on every flaw of my body

Flaws that grew nonexistent by your unhindered love

Love that is now a shadow

A shadow I’m limping after…

My soul is bleeding out

Its shell cracked

Lost among the sketchy roads of our fading bond

How do we stop the cracks from quacking between us?